Badlooking fonts in pdf viewers

For some reason fonts in pdf documents are badly rendered, they're really uncomfortable to look at. I'm using okular with ghostscript engine. I don't have that problem anywhere else, so I believe it's ghostscript related. Didn't have that problem in Kubuntu, so it's a configuration issue.
What can I do to fix it?

As far as I see it's impossible to change the engine to anything else. I wish I had kubuntu box around here, but I'm 99% positive it's exactly the same there.
Just checked what fonts are loaded by okular in /proc/(pid)/maps with a sample pdf file:
mateusz@saturn:/proc/8858$ egrep -i '([ot]tf|pf[ab])' maps
7f5514353000-7f5514399000 r--p 00000000 08:11 74079 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/arialbd.ttf
7f55148fa000-7f551492d000 r--p 00000000 08:11 74081 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ariali.ttf
7f551492d000-7f5514977000 r--p 00000000 08:11 74089 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/cour.ttf
7f5514977000-7f55149bb000 r--p 00000000 08:11 74082 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/arial.ttf
7f5515fe4000-7f5516070000 r--p 00000000 08:11 74033 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
7f5516070000-7f5516108000 r--p 00000000 08:11 74049 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf
At least those aren't bitmap fonts, I have no idea why it renders them so badly.
Edit: Actually those fonts are loaded using fontconfig, but it may be that fonts are also included in a pdf file and the included font is rendered like that. I'm not sure how to check exact data in pdf file.
Edit2: File > Properties > Fonts in okular points only to ttf fonts.
Last edited by xaff (2009-04-12 18:28:58)

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